This Month
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Vodafone gets a start in the bush, now to make it work
Vodafone’s never been able to justify going to the bush. It needs at least 100,000 more customers to make its new deal work.
- Anthony Macdonald
TPG Telecom, Optus network-sharing deal gets ACCC approval
TPG Telecom will market its mobile phone services to more Australians after the competition regulator said it could share networks with Optus in regional areas.
- Jenny Wiggins
NBN Co names Vocus’ Ellie Sweeney as next CEO
The Vocus Group boss will step into Stephen Rue’s shoes as he prepares to take the reins at Optus.
- Jenny Wiggins
August
TPG Telecom cuts 120 jobs as interim profits slide
The telco group, which is carrying more than $4 billion in debt, says it needs to keep reducing its expenses.
- Jenny Wiggins
Telcos gear up for tech showdown
Australia’s biggest telcos are battling for taxpayer dollars in the debate over replacing ageing copper wires.
- Jenny Wiggins
Telstra boss Vicki Brady retreats from the ‘telco for everything’
The era of hotchpotch acquisitions and experimenting with non-telco services such as selling energy plans is over.
- Jenny Wiggins
- Opinion
- Opinion
Why Telstra’s latest strategy shift might pay off
Why Vicki Brady wants to keep Telstra’s infrastructure assets close and growing even if mobiles remain today’s success story.
- Updated
- Jennifer Hewett
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
What’s behind Telstra’s pointed message for the government
Telstra isn’t getting the returns it should on its huge capital expenditure bill. Vicki Brady wants to change that by pulling three levers.
- James Thomson
Microsoft’s Telstra deal backs Vicki Brady’s $1.6b infrastructure bet
The technology giant will become the first client of a big intercity fibre network being rolled out after the telco decided not to sell its InfraCo division.
- Paul Smith
Vocus revives $6.3b dream to buy TPG’s fibre network
But sources said discussions between the ASX-listed telecommunications group and its Macquarie and Aware Super-owned rival were at a very early stage.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Optus’ Australian accounts show $480m loss
Optus filed its own accounts with regulators this week showing its annual loss deepened more than six-fold from a year earlier.
- Jenny Wiggins
July
Former TPG Telecom email customers to be slugged up to $95 annually
Accounts with iiNet, Internode and Westnet addresses will start paying a yearly fee from September after they were transferred to a Norwegian-owned company.
- Jenny Wiggins
AT&T hack undermines US national security, experts say
The telco giant said a hacker had compromised its network and stolen records of calls and text messages from nearly all of its 100 million wireless customers.
- Ryan Gallagher
Telstra increases phone plan prices above inflation rate
The telco is lifting prices for most of its mobile plans – and analysts warn there could be more price increases to come.
- Jenny Wiggins
- Analysis
- Due diligence
Competition for broadband intensifies as consumers crack down on bills
Small telcos such as Superloop and Aussie Broadband have been stealing internet customers from Telstra, TPG Telecom and Optus as consumers shop around.
- Jenny Wiggins
America’s campaign to kill Huawei has failed
After international sanctions drove profits down 70 per cent, the Chinese telecommunications company learnt that it didn’t need to rely on the West.
- The Economist
June
Mitsui-backed Campana plots $400 million ASX-listing; hires CLSA
Mitsui has been an investor since it co-led Campana’s $US40 million ($60 million) Series B equity raise in 2018.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Why Apple’s new iPad calculator is causing excitement
From calculators to new payment features to let you split the bills in restaurants, Apple announced updates that will affect iPhones, iPads, Macs and watches.
- John Davidson
May
Optus raises monthly mobile plan prices by 5-6pc
Optus has quietly raised prices of its cheapest and most popular monthly mobile phone plans for new customers above the rate of inflation, blaming higher costs.
- Jenny Wiggins
Optus sued by regulator for breaches in 2022 cyberattack
The communications regulator has filed a lawsuit in the Federal Court claiming Optus did not protect customers’ information before it was struck by a cyberattack.
- Jenny Wiggins
